Northern Legal Lights (NOLLI) is a research community for all legal researchers (including all doctoral researchers) in the Faculty of Law. The aim is to promote and spread high-level legal research by improving researchers’ skills, supporting researchers’ well-being and enhancing visibility both inside and outside the community. 

NOLLI offers possibilities for researchers to discuss methodological, theoretical and topical questions as well as informal coffee-meetings. 

Event types
  • Academic Reading Circle
  • Research hour & coffee-meeting
  • Internal seminars (1/year, in autumn)
  • Open webinars (1/year, in spring) 

Examples of our research

SYSADMIN

Towards a fairer and more coherent system of administrative sanctions (SYSADMIN)

  • Funded by Research Council of Finland, 2023–2027, decision no. 357647
  • Lead: Professor Mikko Vuorenpää

The research project explores administrative sanctions: legal reactions used instead of criminal penalties in many fields of law. For instance, corporations participating in a cartel may be liable to pay administrative fines of hundreds of millions of euros.

In the EU and in Finland, the number of administrative sanctions has soared without an overarching theory of their fairness. We aim at developing such a theory based on European case-law and other legal sources.

The project also sheds light on the origins and functions of administrative sanctions. The project will produce research that is useful for agencies, courts and legislators.

Funding information

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Last updated: 25.8.2025